Mindanaotoday.com | Klarex, Unabia, NTC to solve ‘spaghetti wire’ mess in Oro
IN what could be a historic gesture of cooperation, the City Hall and the Capitol agreed on the proposal of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to use the underground cable ducts of the defunct Misamis Oriental Telephone (Misortel) by telecommunication companies.
In a breakfast meeting with Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Rolando “Klarex” Uy and Mis. Or. Gov. Pedro Unabia, Friday, NTC region 10 Dir. Ted Buenavista, Jr. offered a “win-win” to the “spaghetti wire” mess in the city and the unutilized underground cable ducts of Misortel.
“Actually, there is an existing underground facility with a win-win solution for the city and the province which owns Misortel. We checked the ducts and it’s still in good condition,” Buenavista told the two local chief executives in a breakfast meeting hosted by Uy at his office.
The Misamis Oriental government-owned Misortel, in partnership with Samsung laid underground fiber optic cables in the 1990s.
These ducts however are now unused after the landline telephone firm went defunct.
The city and the province stand to gain from the proposal of the NTC as it serves the objectives of the city to clean messy cable wire or “spaghetti wires.”
The city government has organized the Task Force Kable to clear utility posts around the city with these unsightly cables.
The task force’s work has, however, been hampered as removing functional cables would affect essential telecommunications services.
The Provincial Government will gain revenues from lease of these underground ducts from telecommunications firms whose cables are to be removed from utility posts. (CDO CMO Communications Group)
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